Well… if that’s the intended point, then I just don’t think it’s well-supported by the anecdote.
I tell the story here of a D&D gaming group I ran which was over half female. I play D&D with several more women on a semi-regular basis. There are some differences in play style between some of the guys I play with and some of the girls I play with, but there’s no monolithic bloc such that I can even begin to generalize, even ignoring the small sample size and selection effects.
To put it another way, the anecdote in question justifies an existentially quantified claim, but in no way does it justify a universally quantified claim. And anything in-between requires that stuff that you famously don’t get by pluralizing “anecdote”.
Well… if that’s the intended point, then I just don’t think it’s well-supported by the anecdote.
I tell the story here of a D&D gaming group I ran which was over half female. I play D&D with several more women on a semi-regular basis. There are some differences in play style between some of the guys I play with and some of the girls I play with, but there’s no monolithic bloc such that I can even begin to generalize, even ignoring the small sample size and selection effects.
To put it another way, the anecdote in question justifies an existentially quantified claim, but in no way does it justify a universally quantified claim. And anything in-between requires that stuff that you famously don’t get by pluralizing “anecdote”.